Multidataonline Description: This is an index of around 250 Arabic Periodicals, growing at the rate of 4000 new records each month from over 20 countries, and with data going back to the 1970's. The collection is searchable in Arabic script and covers the fields of politics, business, finance, education, health, environment and law. The Data Bank consists of the following: General News Data Base: A full text database covering 40 dailies and weeklies from the year 1994 until today. Book Reviews: A database indexing and documenting book reviews and bibliographies of books published in newspapers and periodicals from the year 1998 until today. Specialized Arabic periodicals: A bibliographical database. Availability: Full-text and bibliographic citations Coverage: 1970s-